EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS DEBATE BEGINS
Rapid City dispatch reports President Coolidge keeping an open mind on calling Congress or the Senate into a special session ahead of the December meeting. Senator Jones says Coolidge seems sympathetic to an early session to address contests against Senators Smith of Illinois and Ware of Pennsylvania. Curtis opposes a special session and will decide with the President on a course of action.
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Rapid City
S. D
Coolidge
Congress
Senate
Washington
Senator Jones
Mr. Coolidge
Jones
Enater Smith
Ofllinois
Ware
Pennsylvania
Curtis
Kansas
Runaway Girl Spent Four Days at Local Park
Virginia Tare aged 17 was found living as a vagrant in City Park after four days there with no shelter except the park. Police say she previously stayed at Washington County Orphans Home and had recently been placed with her mother and stepfather in Middletown before fleeing to Hagerstown with help from tourists. She attempted to find work before the arrest by Pa trolman J B Brown.
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Virginia Tare
J. B. Brown
Washington County Orphans’ Home
Middletown
M Middletown
Hagerstown
Brown
Flight to Rome Again Postponed at Roosevelt Field
At Roosevelt Field in New York on August 30 thousands gathered to watch the Rome flight of the monoplane Old Glory. Pilots Lloyd Bertaud and James D. Hill kept hope alive until almost 7 pm daylight time when the wind failed to shift west and the flight was officially postponed for the night.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Rome
Hone
Lloyd Bertaud
James D. Hill
Two Detroit Men Hurt in State Road Crash
Two Detroit men about 20 years old sustained injuries when their automobile collided with Clinton Neff of Woodpoint at the west side of Funks town bridge around 12:30 this morning. Gordon Looman is reported in critical condition with possible skull fracture and internal injuries. Milton Schultz was less seriously hurt. Neff said the Detroit pair were unfamiliar with the road and failed to yield, leading to a rear collision that wrecked the visitors’ car as they were en route to Washington on vacation.
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Detroit
Mich
Clinton Neff
Woodpoint
Funkstown Bridge
Gordon Looman
Milton Schultz
Neff
Pagoda Park
Washington
Looman
Rohrer held on check charge former deputy sheriff arrested
Fred Rohrer a former deputy sheriff and policeman was arrested last night on charges of passing a worthless check. The allegedly cashed check was at Wareham's Pharmacy. He will be arraigned before Justice Richard Duffey, under whom he once served as deputy when Duffey was sheriff. Rohrer is well known locally, having been appointed constable first.
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Fred Rohrer
Wareham
Rohrer
Richard Duffey
Revenue freight loadings rise in week ending August 20
Washington reports that the American Railway Association tallies 1,066,636 cars loaded for the week ending August 20. This marks an increase of 17,356 cars from the prior week but a drop of 14,867 cars compared with the same week a year ago.
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Washington
American Railway Association
Conditions In Canneries Scored By Dep t Of Labor
A Labor Department report from Washington documents harsh and unsafe working conditions in Delaware vegetable canneries. It highlights long hours, low pay, dangerous steam exposure, wet floors, lacking safety devices and seating. Data from 34 canneries show 1,700 women interviewed with earnings mostly under $10 weekly.
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Washington
Delaware
Women's Bureau
Labor Department
Brock and Schlee land in Belgrade after Munich takeoff
American aviators William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee added 500 miles to the Pride of Detroit flight by landing near Belgrade after a 12:03 p.m. arrival. They left Munich at 6:25 a.m. aiming for Constantinople 1,000 miles away but rain and fog forced a Belgrade stop. They navigated by earth inductor compass and Danube guidance with aid from Captain Sondermayer who previously flew Belgrade to Bombay.
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Belgrade
Jugo-Slavia
Detroit
William S. Brock
Edward F. Schlee
Munich
Constantinople
Danube River
Hunt for Carrier of Typhoid Fever in Blair's Valley
State Health Nurse Helen Wingerd will investigate a suspected carrier to explain a typhoid outbreak in Blair's Valley where seven cases exist in one family. Water will be tested. a carrier cannot be isolated but will be advised on prevention. A typhoid immunization clinic vaccinated twenty five people and clinics are planned across the county to spread both typhoid and diphtheria serum. The health department lists twelve known carriers in the county.
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Helen Wingerd
Blair's Valley
Miss Wingerd
Bureau of Sanitary Engineering
State Board of Health
Unprovoked attack on William Hull investigated by police
William Hull was assaulted by five men in an automobile on Franklin Street near Jonathan. One man left the car, beat Hull severely, then returned and drove off. The assailant warned Hull he could not curse him and get away with it. Hull did not know his attacker and offered no motive.
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William Hull
Hull
Franklin Street
Jonathan
British Aviator Hinchcliffe Seeks Trans Atlantic with Levine
Croydon August 30 Captain W G Hinchcliffe the British aviator known as a storm wizard agreed to pilot Charles A Levine across the ocean in the Columbia to America Le vine Hinchcliffe and Doc Kinkade discussed motors fuel and takeoff grounds over a meal Hinchcliffe tested the Columbia and praised its handling saying it was ready to fly to the United States with Levine.
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Levine
Storm
Croydon
England
W. G. Hinchcliffe
Charles A. Levine
America
Great Britain
Hinchcliffe
Doc Winkade
Wright Motor
Doc Kinkade
Columbia
Atlantic
Young Swimmer Forced to Abandon 12 Mile Cape May Lewes Run
Miss Maxine Meitzner, 17, of Ocean City New Jersey, was in the water 11 hours trying to swim from Cape May to Lewes Delaware. Aided to a power boat she said she felt fine but flood tide and heavy waves prevented progress, leaving about a mile and a half to go.
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Lewes
Del
Maxine Meitzner
Ocean City
N. J
Cape May
Cape May Point
United States Steel Board Fails to Elect Successor Chairman
New York, Aug. 30. Failure of United States Steel Corporation directors to elect a chairman of the board and the finance committee to succeed the late Elbert H. Gary leaves active direction in the hands of President James A. Farrell. By-laws designate the president to preside in his absence and to have general charge of manufacturing, mining and transportation operations under the board and finance committee.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Elbert H. Gary
James A. Farrell
Deserter Held by Local Police
Lyman H. Metzger alleged United States Army deserter was arrested yesterday evening by Patrolmen Hasty and Desmond and is held for Federal authorities. Metzger, attached to an Army outfit near Washington, said he had been away five weeks and spent most of that time here. Two automobile drivers, Clentus Shiffer and Marshall Rafter, faced hearings before Justice Duffey on licenseless driving charges, each fined ten dollars and costs.
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Lyman H. Metzger
United States Army
Hasty and
Desmond
Metzger
Washington
Clentus Shiffer
Marshall Rafter
Boy Escapes Serious Injury After Truck Fall Near Halfway
Charlies Stem an employee of W. F. Prior Company fell from a truck traveling 25 mph on the pike near Halfway. He grabbed the door to avoid the windshield, the door flew open, and he was hurled to the road. He suffered cuts and bruises to shoulders and hands and was treated at The Lakin Apartments by Dr. Leonard Hays. Stem is a catcher for the Prior Co. baseball team en route to Hagerstown for a game with the South End Stars.
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Charlies Stem
W. F. Prior
Stein
Lakin Apartments
Leonard Hays
Young Stem
Hagerstown
South End Stars
Autoist Fined For Dizzy Driving Plea in Police Court
Lynn H Mellott of Clearspring Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle while under the influence of liquor. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs by Justice Richard Duffey after being arrested Sunday by State Policeman Kreise while riding toward Cumberland in an automobile bus. The officer delivered him to local authorities and then continued to Cumberland.
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Lynn H. Mellott
Clearspring
Richard Duffey
Mellott
Kreise
Cumberland
Mellett
No Trace Found Of Missing Fliers In Search
Honolulu August 30 The cruiser Omaha and six destroyers left Pearl Harbor to resume the hunt for seven missing Dole fliers. They will sweep waters from the Great Circle Route to 200 miles west of San Francisco then steer toward San Diego. Navy officials say the fliers are presumed dead but wreckage might be found to indicate their fate.
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Honolulu
Omaha
California
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
San Diego
Navy
Trans-Atlantic flight to Ottawa underway from Upavon
Captain Leslie Hamilton and Col. F F Minchin began a 7 31 a m flight from Upavon England to Ottawa aboard the St Raphael with Princess Lowenstein Wertheim aboard as financier.
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Upavon
England
Leslie Hamilton
Col
F. F. Minchin
Ottawa
Lowenstein Wertheim
St. Ra
McCray parole expected for former Indiana governor
Washington reports that War ren T. McCray, ex governor of Indiana, jailed in Atlanta for three years and four months, will be released on parole after serving one third of his ten year sentence for use of the mails to defraud. Attorney General Sargent approved the parole board’s recommendation, with telegraphic steps to free him by tomorrow night. Civil rights remain suspended until 1931 unless pardoned or restored by executive action. He resigned as governor and faced a $10 fine plus bankruptcy findings for forging signatures on cattle papers.
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Washington
Warren T. McCray
Indiana
Atlanta
Tomor
Sargent
Parole Board
McCray
Department of Justice
Snook
A. B. Anderson
Indianapolis
New Front-Drive Track Record Set by Frank Lockhart at Altoona
Altoona Pa Aug 30 Frank Lockhart established a new track record for rear wheel driven automobiles at the Altoona speedway by clocking 135.5 miles per hour to qualify for the 200 mile Labor Day championship. His mark trails the all cars record of 126.3 mph set by Leon Duray in June trials. Pete De Paolo, 1925 speedway champion and two time Altoona winner, failed twice to qualify at 125 mph and will try again tomorrow.
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Altoona
Frank Lockhart
Altoona Speedway
Labor Day
Lockhart
Leon Duray
Pete de Paolo
City approves bonds for Western Maryland Railway piers
Baltimore on August 30 authorized a 2 million dollar issue of five percent bonds to cover the first two of five contracts for constructing Western Maryland Railway piers here. The bonds will mature in 1958.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland Railway
Baltimore clerk held for embezzling lodge funds
Charles B. Jaeger, a clerk in the state manager's office for the Maccabees, was taken into custody in Baltimore on a charge of embezzling about $1,500 from the lodge. The incident occurred today as police reported.
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Baltimore
Charles B. Jaeger
The
Maccabees
Lodge
Fire damages North Jonathan barber shop and apartment
Residents of 237 North Jonathan Street awoke to a blaze that started between walls of a two story wooden building owned by Miss Miller. Tom Johnson and his wife Ida escaped after Johnson woke by Patrolman A C Castle. Mrs Johnson was helped down a rear stairway and treated for shock. Firefighters, aided by a large crowd, contained the fire quickly.
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North Jonathan Street
Tom Johnson
Johnson
Ida
A. C. Castle
A. B. Wilson
Federal agent Beall requests jury trial in assault case
Robert Beall a Baltimore prohibition agent faced charges of assaulting Mrs. Mary Di Ninna on August 27 when she asked him to stop beating a youth during a dry raid. Testimony had been heard earlier and the magistrate delayed decision until yesterday. Beall then demanded a jury trial and was released on his own recognizance.
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Robert FE. Beall
Prohibition
Baltimore
Mary di Ninna
Beall
Two car theft violators sent to House of Correction
Justice Duffey sentenced Dewey McVey for one year for attempting to steal an automobile and George B. Miller, colored, to eighteen months for failing to stop after his car injured Eva Daymude. Deputy Gouff took them to the institution to begin serving their terms.
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House of Correction
Duffey
Gouff
Dewey McVey
George B. Miller
Eva Daymude
Public sale settles two city properties at Court House
Frank K. Williams bought the William Smith property on West Church street for 2060 dollars while a Roessner avenue property was withdrawn at a bid of 4000 dollars during yesterday’s public sale in front of the Court House.
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Court House
Frank K. Williams
William Smith
West Church Street
Roessner Avenue
County Commissioners Meeting Yields Routine Actions
Routine business was transacted at yesterday's County Commissioners meeting. No major policy shifts were announced as officials approved standard agenda items and heard reports from department heads.
Hunt Continues for Fuel Lost on Brazil Trip
Washington reports ongoing search for Paul Redfern the Brunswick-Brazil aviator missing since a flight to Brazil. A Brazilian foreign relations minister Octav Mangabeira sent a message expressing hope for Redfern’s safe landing and the Brazilian and U S cooperation in the search. Acting Secretary of State Cast telegraphed thanks and gratitude for Brazil’s help and promised continued assistance in locating Redfern.
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Hunt
Brazil
Washington
Gana
Paul Redfern
Brunswick-Brazil
Octav Mangabeira
Celebr
Redfern
United States of America
Cast
Georgian aviator Paul Fern missing after Brunswick flight
Rio De Janeiro reports more than five days without word on Paul Fern, the Georgian aviator who took off from Brunswick last Thursday for a non-stop flight, with no contact or updates yet from authorities or sponsors.
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Rio de Janeiro
Paul Fern
Brunswick
Chicago movie houses closed in labor fight
In Chicago, all movie houses and vaudeville theaters shut down amid a labor dispute. Orpheum Circuit managers opposed staff reductions, prompting a lockout by about 350 theatres. Film exchanges refused to deliver pictures, while officials sought court action and conciliation to resolve the standoff.
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Lion
Orpheum Circuit
Acqu
Department of Laboratington Today
B. M. Maman
Concilia
U Tonight
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Cologne
James Farrell
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Charles Stem
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